New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-12
VIEWS OF SENATOR HALE.

WHAT THE RECORD or CONGRESS sHOws-MR
BLAINEs STRENGTH.
Senator Eugene Hale. of Maine was at tho Fifth
Avenue Hotel yesterday on his way home from WASH
ington to make arrangements for improvements and
work on his place before going to Europe 1t Is his
intention sail from this oty in April and spend the
summer with Mrs:: Hale and his boys. who are IN
Paris. When asked about the general result OF the
session of Congress- Senator Hale said
aThere are two things that have been shown very
clearly and stand out distinctly above eveIynnS
Legislative faculty the part OF the Democratic party
in the frat place. and secondly the unpatrouc atti-
Usev 81 ns reatng to fiscal and financial legislation
Everybody 10 the country knows that to be the fact
but II could be seen In Washington even more PLAINLY
Tho Administration had no plans or policy OF any
kind. The leaders In the house had no plans
that they were waited On wi tS le"ao' plans
There VAS nothing that oven looked like
united action between the leaders OF these several
parts OF the Democratic organization. They did not
ogree on the tariff silver, nor upon the treat
ment OF the surplus, nor upon any method Oh us'lou
ton Of surplus by appropriations among the PeVP,e;
the consideration OF Congress. 1t was apparently
given over to the consider alton OF small things petty
details aud minor matters letting the iafse nnars OF
the broad questions OF statesmanship. whenever II
made recommendations, 1t was sDUbted both in the
House and the Senate by the Democratic members
ing tho business OF the country. When wo come to
the other subject, the unpatrotio attitude OF tho
party was displayed by the entire indifference to
security On those measures 1t was In pronounced
hostility. The President recommended nothing to
put the country in o condition OF safety either in
respect to the naval establishment or Tor haroor
defenoos tor coast Notifications. The House put
tho veto on everything attempted IN ths afsctGn
The singular spectacle was presented OF the minority
that is the opposition, and not the Administration
.desentng and framing and passing through the no
publican Senate all the measures that tended to
National security and defence This was all the more
significant because tho moneys appropriated oy snoh
legislation lodged In the hands OF tho DEMOCRATIC
have been expended by the Democrats yet the bills
tailed become laws because OF tho opposition OF the
Administration and it's adherents in the two branches
OF Congress. expect espec ally this unpstriotio
attitude OF the Democratic party and its indifference
ing the next year and will bee, me Promi-
nent feature for discussion in the next Pres-
the MAIDS OF the Democratic leaders in Congress to
the future. They have very little confidence in the
Administration"
How about the Presidency Whom will the
Democrats nominate "
8 al think they are likely to renomnatc Mr. Cleye
land 1t he has New-YOrk earnestly for him in the
convention that will settle it,"
SIS not that likely to bring on the old fight again
between Mr.. Blaine and Cleveland "
So far as the Republican nomination is concerned:
If the COZ vention should meet to-day nobody would
be much talked OF o discussed for the nomination
EXCEPT Mr.. Blaine. He has lost nothing in the two
years since his defeat in his retirement, which has
been honorable, and dignihed but has gained IN pub
lie confidence Personally he is not thinking about
the subject and he has desire to become again a
candidate II he is a candidate it will he because he
are bound to make the fight az ain with him as the
leader"